All news with #product launch tag

📍 Amazon has launched Amazon Quick in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region (ap-northeast-1), enabling Japan-based customers to use its agentic AI capabilities while addressing local and regional data sovereignty requirements. The service delivers AI-powered chat, Research, Spaces, Flows, and QuickSight dashboards. The announcement states customer data will be stored and processed locally within the London region and supports in-region inference through JP-CRIS, routing inference requests exclusively within Japanese AWS Regions. Regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector are specifically called out as beneficiaries.

🇩🇪 Amazon Quick is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region (eu-central-1). This launch lets customers in Germany use Amazon Quick capabilities—AI-powered chat, Research, Spaces, Flows, and QuickSight dashboards—with data stored and processed locally within the Frankfurt region. The expansion includes in-region inference via EU-CRIS, ensuring inference traffic stays inside European AWS Regions. Regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector can meet GDPR and local data sovereignty requirements.

🚀 Amazon Quick is now available in the AWS Europe (London) region (eu-west-2), enabling UK customers to use Amazon Quick with data stored and processed locally to meet regional requirements. The service delivers AI-powered chat, Research, Spaces, Flows, and QuickSight dashboards that act as an agentic teammate, enabling users to get answers and take actions without switching applications. In-region inference is enforced via EU-CRIS, routing requests exclusively within European AWS Regions and supporting regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are available in the AWS London Region. These sixth-generation, network-optimized instances use 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System to deliver up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth—about 2x that of comparable fifth-generation instances. They support up to 128 vCPUs, 512 GiB of memory, up to 100 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and up to 400K IOPS, and M6idn offers up to 7.6 TB of low-latency instance storage. Sizes include metal and 32xlarge (which also support EFA); purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🔍 Mesh CSMA operationalizes Gartner's Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture to unify disparate security tools into a single, contextual risk model that reveals multi‑hop attack paths to crown jewels. The agentless platform automatically discovers critical assets, builds an identity‑centric Mesh Context Graph™, correlates misconfigurations, entitlements, and vulnerabilities, and ranks complete attack chains by live threat intelligence. It prescribes and orchestrates precise cross‑domain remediations mapped to existing tooling and continuously validates detection coverage so teams can close exploitable paths before they are used.

🤖 This article introduces Dev Signal, a prototype multi-agent system built with Google ADK, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Cloud Run to automate discovery, grounding, and content creation. It outlines prerequisites, project structure, and an MCP-based toolset that integrates a Reddit discovery proxy, the managed Developer Knowledge MCP for documentation grounding, and a local Nano Banana Pro image generator. The piece explains secure secret handling, subprocess-based local tooling, and the ADK modular design to accelerate development.

🔒 CrowdStrike is introducing new GovCloud capabilities designed to help federal, state, and local agencies modernize cyber defenses while maintaining FedRAMP compliance. Falcon Flex offers a commitment-based purchasing model to simplify procurement and consolidate tooling. New Charlotte AI features bring natural-language interactions and an automated Response Agent to speed investigations. GovCloud additions include Falcon for XIoT, External Attack Surface Management, and behavioral malware analysis to improve IT/OT visibility, detection, and response.

🚀 Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available as a no-cost, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK for Linux, Windows, and macOS, with support through October 2026. This Feature Release brings HTTP/3 (JEP 517) and Ahead‑of‑Time Object Caching (JEP 516) to improve protocol efficiency and startup performance, along with enhanced Pattern Matching (JEP 530) and initial enforcement of final-field immutability (JEP 500). Continued preview and incubator APIs include Structured Concurrency (JEP 525), the Vector API (JEP 529), and Lazy Constants (JEP 526). Amazon distributes Corretto 26 under an open source license and references the OpenJDK 26 project for full technical details.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling customers to build and scale generative AI applications using a single API and a choice of foundation models. The managed service emphasizes built-in security, privacy, and responsible AI capabilities to support enterprise deployments. Models now available in New Zealand include Anthropic (Sonnet 4.5, 4.6; Opus 4.5, 4.6; Haiku 4.5) and Amazon’s Nova 2 Lite with cross-region inference support.

🤖 AWS announces general availability of AWS Partner Central agents, AI-powered agentic capabilities built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to accelerate partner co-selling. Agents provide pipeline insights, tailored sales plays, and next-step recommendations, and can populate CRM fields from transcripts, notes, and emails. They also identify funding eligibility, pre-fill funding requests, and are available in all commercial AWS Regions.

⚙️ Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports the Agent-User Interaction (AG-UI) protocol, enabling developers to deploy AG-UI servers that deliver real-time, interactive agent experiences into user-facing applications. AgentCore Runtime handles authentication, session isolation, and autoscaling for AG-UI workloads so teams can focus on building responsive frontends. AG-UI streams text, reasoning steps, and tool results over SSE and WebSocket and is available across fourteen AWS Regions.

🚀 AWS and Kiro introduce the SAM Kiro Power, an agentic-AI extension that brings serverless application development expertise directly into local development environments. It dynamically loads SAM guidance to initialize, build, deploy, and locally test Lambda-based applications while enforcing security best practices for IAM. Built-in defaults require SAM resources and Powertools for AWS Lambda for observability and structured logging, accelerating the path from prototype to production.

⚡ Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors with up to 4.5 GHz boost. These instances deliver up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance, and 45% more memory bandwidth versus R7a, with up to 60% faster GroovyJVM performance. Built on the AWS Nitro System, R8a is SAP-certified, offered in 12 sizes including two bare-metal options, and is suited to memory-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 M8azn instances in the US East (Ohio) Region. These general-purpose, high-frequency instances use fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors and deliver up to 5 GHz maximum CPU frequency. AWS reports up to 2× compute versus M5zn and up to 24% improvement over M8a, along with up to 4.3× memory bandwidth, a 10× larger L3 cache, and increased networking and EBS throughput. Available in nine sizes (2–96 vCPUs) including two bare-metal variants, they target latency-sensitive, compute-intensive workloads such as high-frequency trading, real-time analytics, HPC, gaming, and simulation.

🔐 Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling European customers — especially highly regulated industries, government agencies, and organizations with strict data sovereignty requirements — to deploy managed firewall protections while keeping data and operations within EU borders. The service delivers the same capabilities offered in other AWS Regions and automatically scales with VPC traffic to provide high-availability protections without customers needing to maintain underlying infrastructure. Refer to the AWS Region Table and service documentation for availability and configuration guidance.

⚡ Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US‑West), featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors with up to 4.5 GHz. Compared with Hpc7a, Hpc8a delivers up to 40% higher compute performance, up to 25% better price performance, and up to 42% higher memory bandwidth. Built on sixth‑generation AWS Nitro Cards, these instances are optimized for tightly coupled, latency‑sensitive HPC workloads such as CFD, weather forecasting, FEA, and multiphysics simulations.

🔒 Google has launched a global, open Chrome Enterprise Customer Community to help IT, security, and business leaders collaborate on browser management and deployment. The moderated platform brings together resources, official announcements, and event listings for teams managing Chrome across Windows, macOS, Linux, and ChromeOS. Members can post questions with a Google Account, access tailored guidance, and track product updates or join conversations about advanced features like Chrome Enterprise Premium.

🚀 AWS announced the general availability of CDK Mixins in the aws-cdk-lib, enabling developers to attach composable, reusable abstractions to any construct (L1, L2, or custom) without rebuilding existing infrastructure code. Mixins use a concise .with() syntax to add behaviors like auto-delete, bucket encryption, versioning, and block public access, and multiple Mixins can be combined into custom L2 constructs. Teams can apply Mixins across scopes or use Mixins.of() for resource-type or path-pattern filtering, helping enforce reusable security and compliance policies while preserving day-one access to new AWS features.

🚀 Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. You can create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2iedn, T4g, and T3 instance types, and deploy production-ready graph workloads with high availability and automated backups. Neptune supports both Property Graph (Gremlin and openCypher) and RDF (SPARQL) models and offers Neptune Global Database for multi-region replication. Get started via the Console, CLI, or CloudFormation.

🔒 AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service helps cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers protect applications while reducing the operational overhead of manual rule configuration and management. Customers can use Firewall Manager to create and maintain AWS WAF security policies and apply defense-in-depth controls across AWS security services and accounts.